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It's ironic this is the top comment, since the vibe I got from the post was that people waste way too much time discussing ideological things and not fixing any
by an_opabinia 6y ago
It's ironic this is the top comment, since the vibe I got from the post was that people waste way too much time discussing ideological things and not fixing any of the actual problems he encountered as a maintainer.
The thing that's wrong with the Debian project is that ideological stuff doesn't anymore attract talented engineers who are interested in working for free on something dry like package management.
- joana035 6y agoFrom last two month there are 6 new Debian Developer and 10 new Debian Maintainers. This information is available at https://bits.debian.org https://bits.debian.org For me, working with packaging is a joy, once I learned how it works I see it as a thin wrapper around an upstream code base that, after built with whatever upstream tooling, is copied within a package alongside it's dependencies information.
- jbj 6y agoI got a different vibe with the association to a Churchill quote[1] I moved from Ubuntu to Debian a few years back, if I need anything beyond the ordinary I can always set it up manually and I am pretty content with that. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/267224-democracy-is-the-worst-form-of-government-except-for-all https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/267224-democracy-is-the-wor...